Lord Mahavira Vol 01

SR No.: 023276
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S C Rampuria
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati Institute
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 320
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Personality of Lord Mahavira and his Sermon at Champa
81 infernals, animals, male as well as female, parents-mother and father, rsis, divine beings, heavens perfection, perfected beings, liberation and the liberated.
There are slaughter of life, false speech, acquisition without bestowal, sex behaviour and accumulation of property. There are anger, pride, attachment, greed, till the thorn is derived from wrong faith.
There are withdrawal from slaughter, from falsehood, from acquisition without bestowal, from sex behaviour and from accumulation of property, till there is consciousness about the thorn of wrong faith.
I ordain, all that exists does exist. I propound, all that does not exist does not exist.
Right practices yield beneficial results, wrong practices yield harmful results. Soul bind virtue and vice, pass from one existence to another, virtue and vice yield results.
He elaborated the Law at length. These words of the Nirgranthas are true, unprecedented, supreme, complete, irrefutable and remover of all thorns. They are road to perfection, to liberation, to non-return, to ending all misery, real and relative to Mahâvîra. They have never failed, nor will they ever fail. They terminate all misery. Souls treading on this road are perfected, enlightened, liberated; they enter into a state of perfect bliss; the end all misery. Or, if they have to pass through one more human life, the beneficiaries are there after born, if they have still to exhaust some previously acquired karma, as divine beings in one of the heavens.
These heavens give a great fortune, till great bliss, with access till the anuttaran-vimanas, and a long span of life. So such divine beings enjoy a great fortune till a long span of life. Their chests are bedecked with necklaces, till they spread the lustre of their bodies in all the ten directions. Born in a heaven, they have beneficial existence and are marked for future liberation, till as aforesaid. All this is the outcome of the words of the Nirganthas.
He added further: In this manner, on account of the following four reasons, a soul acquires karma giving life in a hell as an infernal being and is born in a hell : excessive slaughter of life, excessive accumulation, killing of a five organ being and taking meat.